
Bewilderment
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To read David Ferry's Bewildermentis to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century.
Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry's use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it's like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption.
Ferry's translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them.
"These poems highlight an age-old quest for truth that leads the speaker to consider his present and past, and to translate works by Horace, Virgil, Catullus and others . . . vivid and sometimes heartbreaking."- The Washington Post
"Astonishing-a haunted book where ghosts prove that the haunted are still alive and allow for the continuing company of literature."- Slate
"A necessary book . . . shocking and heartbreaking."- The Rumpus
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- Narcissus
- Found Single-Line Poems
- One Two Three Four Five
- Soul
- Untitled
- The Intention of Things
- Your Personal God
- Two
- Dedication to His Book: Catullus I, to Cornelius Nepos
- Brunswick, Maine, Early Winter, 2000
- Martial I.101
- Measure 100
- Ancestral Lines
- Entreaty
- October
- Spring: From Virgil, Georgics II (lines 323-45)
- Anguilla: Eugenio Montale, "L'Anguilla"
- In the Reading Room
- Three
- Coffee Lips
- Incubus: At the Supper for Street People
- At the Street Corner: Rilke, "Das Lied des Zwerges"
- The Late-Hour Poem
- At a Bar
- To Varus: Horace, Odes I.18
- Somebody in a Bar: after Edward Hopper
- In Despair: Cavafy, "En Apognosi"
- Dido in Despair: From Virgil, Aeneid iv (lines 450-73)
- Catullus II
- Virgil, Aeneid II: Lines 250-67
- Thermopylae: Cavafy, "Thermopylae"
- Four
- Street Scene
- Willoughby Spit
- Everybody's Tree
- Five
- The Offering of Isaac: From Genesis A, Anglo-Saxon
- Six
- Reading Arthur Gold's Poem "Chest Cancer"
- Reading Arthur Gold's "Trolley Poem"
- Reading Arthur Gold's Poem "On the Beach at Asbury"
- Reading Arthur Gold's Poem "Rome, December 1973"
- Virgil, Aeneid VI: Lines 719-61
- Reading Arthur Gold's Prose Poem "Allegory"
- Looking, Where Is the Mailbox?
- Seven
- Orpheus and Eurydice: From Virgil, Georgics IV (lines 457-527)
- Lake Water
- The White Skunk
- Virgil, Aeneid VI: Lines 297-329
- That Now Are Wild and Do Not Remember
- Untitled Dream Poem
- Eight
- The Departure from Fallen Troy: From Virgil, Aeneid II (lines 704-44)
- To Where
- Resemblance
- Scrim
- Poem
- The Birds
- Notes
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